In honor of Paladin Software’s launch this week, Co-Founder & CEO James Creech sat down with Bent Pixels Founder & CEO Mike Pusateri to reminisce about their experience building the two companies. The forum was All Things Video, the premier podcast about the online video industry.

The origins of Bent Pixels – making mobile apps for Shaquille O’Neal and Kevin Hart

How Mike’s determination to hire James at Bent Pixels earned him the nickname “Mike Poachateri”

Life as a digital media entrepreneur. As Mike says, “You are going to get kicked in the teeth. It’s going to happen. You have to be able to get up from that.”

Paladin becoming an independent technology company: “What started as an experiment quickly became its own business division…ultimately we thought it would be good to separate that as an independent entity that could focus entirely on serving those customers,” says James.